The Montana Mini-Computer (feat. Carson Gross)
Carson Gross (the creator of HTMX) joins us to demo his new project, The Montana Mini-Computer, an imaginary retro architecture created to visually show the inner workings of a CPU.
If you’d like to try out the Montana Mini-Computer yourself, you can download it from the official site. You can also browse and contribute to the source code via the public github.
If you’d like to see Carson’s meme mastery (as mentioned in the video) you can follow him on X. You can also check out his site, bigsky.software, which features links to some of his other projects, as well as his professional contact info and a collection of his essays on programming.
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cpu + gpu version would be sick. learning how gpus work is still on my todo list
Carson is my professor at MSU and can confirm he’s such a meme lord, even during lecture. His office door is covered in printed out HTMX and hypermedia memes that he’s taped to it. My buddy worked on the MTMC but said it was nightmare to work in assembly and the JVM at the same time.
Kudos to the crew tho, they made something really cool and love that it’s getting shown outside of campus.